Job Description
Job DescriptionAbout us:
Access Veterinary Care is a veterinary clinic that focuses on providing affordable, accessible care for families in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and surrounding areas. Through community medicine that prioritizes quality, efficiency, and flexible care options, we believe that we can help reduce the burden of medical care and help keep animals with their families.
What we're looking for:
Access Veterinary Care has an opportunity for a (C)VT that is looking to practice medicine in a dynamic setting. We are an urgent care clinic that provides affordable care on an out-patient basis. Our fast-paced environment will fully utilize your skills, with consistent opportunities for professional growth and development. We believe in delivering high-quality veterinary medical care by reducing barriers to receive that excellent care.Hiring for full-time or part-time positions.
As one of our certified veterinary technicians, you are the core of the clinical team at Access Veterinary Care. You’ll be responsible for assisting the veterinarians with sick/injured patients, running laboratory diagnostics, running anesthesia for sedated procedures, assisting with surgery, dental x-rays and prophylaxis, client communication, and performing treatments under the guidance of the veterinarian.
We’re looking for technicians who are looking to take charge and have greater autonomy in case management, who enjoy educating clients and working directly with patients, and who are interested in practicing to the full extent of their training. More advanced CVTs will be provided opportunities to advance your skills and provide a lot of variability! Our highest level technicians perform skills such as placing skin sutures, placing bandages and splints, thoracocentesis and more!
Main Job Duties:
- Patient Care
- Perform restraint, diagnostics and treatments on sick or injured patients in collaboration with the DVM
- Triage urgent care patients to identify patients in emergent need of medical intervention
- Administer medications and treatments
- Perform physical assessments and coordinate preventative care under the direct supervision of a DVM
- Perform humane euthanasia under the direct supervision of a DVM
- CPR
- Surgery/Anesthesia
- Perform anesthesia and assist in surgeries, both routine and emergency
- Dental x-rays and prophylaxis
- Intubation
- IV fluid therapy with regular and syringe pump
- Performing different local anesthetic blocks.
- Client Education
- Nutrition and wellness care
- Informed anesthetic consent and procedure discharge
- Medication side effects and compliance
- Participate in team approach to educating clients on medical concerns and chronic disease management
- Help develop client education tools
- Oral health care
- Laboratory
- Run in-house diagnostics
- Prep samples for referral laboratories
- Patient sample collection
- Use of safe sample handling techniques
- Take digital x-rays
- Pharmacy
- Maintain in-house formulary
- Coordinate prescription refills
- Process online prescriptions
- Fill prescriptions using the 5 rights
Preferred Qualifications:
- 1-3 years working in vet medicine
- CVT Preferred (or eligible for LVT when applicable)
- Excellent verbal communication skills
- Critical thinking
- Self starter
- High energy
Full-Time Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Generous Employee discount
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Hours:
- Hours are for a full-time or part-time position and can vary from week to week depending on needs of the clinic.
Job Type: Full-Time or part-time
Pay: $22.00 - $24.00 per hour depending on qualifications
Expected hours: 40 per week
Schedule:
- 10 hour shift
- Day shift
- Weekends
- Potential for evening hours and Sundays in the near future.
Work Location: In person